The FRuit-GarvdeEn IMnftrated. 
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NOW from thefe Experiments ‘tis plain, that thofe Gardeners who 
pull off great Quantities of Leaves from Fruits, before they are fully 
grown, injure them very much, not only by letting in a fudden Heat, 
which fhrinks the tender Sap-Veflels of the Fruits ; but being of them- 
felves unable to attraét the fame Nourifhment which they before receiv’d, 
do therefore inftanely perith. 
IN Auguft 1727. 1 made Choice of feveral Branches of the White 
Mufcadine Grape, whereon were many very fine Bunches; I entirely 
ftripp'd off their Leaves, and left fome of them wholly expofed to the 
Sun and Air, whilft others, tho’ ftripp’d as aforefaid, were fhaded by 
the Leaves of other Branches, which I laid before them for that Purpofe. 
~ THOSE Branches that were fhaded continu’d at a Stand, for the 
Space of 10 or 12 Days, and then decay’d very faft; but the others 
that were fully exposd, began to fhrivel the third Day. Hence it ap- 
pears, That the Leaves of Fruit-Trees, do not only preferve the Fruits 
from the Injuries of Heat and Cold, but ftrongly attract Nourifhment 
to their Support, and perfpire away the Crudities thereof, thro‘out their 
feyeral Stages and Degrees of Growth. 
IF we obferve the great Care that Nature has taken to place the 
Leaves of all Kinds of Herbs, Plants, and Trees, exactly under their 
Buds, to attract Nourifhment to them, we may eafily conceive the Pre- 
judice it is to them when they are taken away. 
IE we obferve the Growth of Fruit-'Trees’ at their firft fhooting out 
in the Spring, we may, with abundance of Pleafure, fee the wife Order 
that Nature obferves in all her wonderful Productions. 
NOW feeing that Fruits cannot perfpire and flourifh without the 
Afiftance of Leaves ; therefore Nature does wifely produce them in all 
Fruits, either before their Bloffoms appear, at the fame Time, or foon 
afterwards, | ee Eye 
THE May Duke-Cherry, March 26. (Fig. 1. Plate V.) produces 
its Bloffoms from the two Years Wood, and more particularly at and 
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